majortom1981
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amazon just pulled the dvd version for this now also .The only one listed is being sold by a third party.
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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
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Alright, just played for a good 3 hours straight and got a lot of great work done. Damn, this game is great when its all up and running. I have a few questions though:
Trade: How? Right now I'm exporting Plastic and Alloy from my recyclying center for around $100,000/day profits, but after building a Trade HQ I see I need to get to 250,000/day in profits just to upgrade. (which I need to do in order to expand) How can I dramatically increase my profit/day?
Traffic: This is definitely the biggest problem with my city and ends up hurting certain city services as a result. (i.e. garbage collection) I have all High Density streets, but how can I clear up the roads? Add multiple bus stations? And what about expanding to avenues? That would require in a serious amount of bulldozing/destroying my city which I don't know if I'm too excited about.
Will post pictures of it later, definitely coming along well. But I fear it will only last so long as I'm relying on it being self-sufficient right now.
Trade: How? Right now I'm exporting Plastic and Alloy from my recyclying center for around $100,000/day profits, but after building a Trade HQ I see I need to get to 250,000/day in profits just to upgrade. (which I need to do in order to expand) How can I dramatically increase my profit/day?
Traffic: This is definitely the biggest problem with my city and ends up hurting certain city services as a result. (i.e. garbage collection) I have all High Density streets, but how can I clear up the roads? Add multiple bus stations? And what about expanding to avenues? That would require in a serious amount of bulldozing/destroying my city which I don't know if I'm too excited about.
Will post pictures of it later, definitely coming along well. But I fear it will only last so long as I'm relying on it being self-sufficient right now.
Haha, well done.
majortom1981
Member
Avenues have to be planned from the beginning . Traffic management should really be thought of from the beginning , because you can make your whole city go downhill by demolishing things to make room for avenues.
I was fortunate enough to get into NA2 server this morning (EST) and got to play for about 2 -3 hours. Finally got some high rises in the center of my city. Up to around 85,000. It's been a hefty challenge so far with sharing resources and commuters between 2 cities. Not sure if it's me or the buggy servers/game. My biggest headache so far has been taking care of recycling issues. There's about 4 times as much as regular trash.
So I'm fucked?
So youre saying people who played the game and enjoyed playing it and is not regretting the money they spent has to get mad because youre mad?
Its like ok lets play gang up maybe we will get something out of it. No, Actually you wont thats why they stopped refunding people.
They already came out and said "we are working very hard to fix the problems". Yet
people keep teaming up to get their point across. The point has been across everywhere.
Im not gonna get mad because I spent 60 bucks on a game where I know I will play alot of it regardless of the servers being down right now....I waited a while for it to come out Im patient.
LiquidSword
Member
Damn that is a nice looking city!
flashburn2012
Member
Trying to create a new region on NA East 2, and failing...
ItAintEasy
Member
Man, I got nothing on this. Looks real good. I got to work on my planning.
storybook77
Member
I am! Finally! NA East 2 server.
TheQueen'sOwn
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Trying to. :lol
Metalmurphy
Member
2 new cities opened in the GAF regions:
http://metalmurphy.org/SimCity/
Also if you know of more dropouts let me know.
http://metalmurphy.org/SimCity/
Also if you know of more dropouts let me know.
Ethical Hedonism
Banned
I'm so frustrated with this game. I got a region for me and my friends (about 7ppl) on launch night, everyone is building their cities and so did I until I could play.
My friends are playing right now on their cities but I still can't load mine. When I can get into the game I can visit their cities normally, everything loads accordingly and they can visit my city as well. The game just does not load my own frigging city and this is driving me nuts, because there's no reason to it.
This little window appears every time I try to boot the game again and it makes me mad:
I must have 3 hours of actual playtime maximum.
These issues makes me sad because I just want to play my city again.
My friends are playing right now on their cities but I still can't load mine. When I can get into the game I can visit their cities normally, everything loads accordingly and they can visit my city as well. The game just does not load my own frigging city and this is driving me nuts, because there's no reason to it.
This little window appears every time I try to boot the game again and it makes me mad:
I must have 3 hours of actual playtime maximum.
These issues makes me sad because I just want to play my city again.
Amazing. It was awesome when Chris started posting on GAF last year. Shame we scared him away.
it was you, wasn't it.
samus4ever
Banned
Game erased all my data. Took me back to the tutorial. Crashed while loading it and now just brings up a black screen. Screw this.
I said wow. I tried the same with splitting residential and industrial between two cities but it didn't work. I guess server issues.
storybook77
Member
I feel like I won the server lottery.
SimCity has no connection to reality. It's vaporware disguised by a screensaver accompanied by music.
samus4ever
Banned
Its the best authenticating servers simulator ever!
Forsaken82
Member
I'm so frustrated with this game. I got a region for me and my friends (about 7ppl) on launch night, everyone is building their cities and so did I until I could play.
My friends are playing right now on their cities but I still can't load mine. When I can get into the game I can visit their cities normally, everything loads accordingly and they can visit my city as well. The game just does not load my own frigging city and this is driving me nuts, because there's no reason to it.
This little window appears every time I try to boot the game again and it makes me mad:
I must have 3 hours of actual playtime maximum.
These issues makes me sad because I just want to play my city again.
So wait... is that a glitch with the hours played or did you seriously spend 18 hours waiting in a queue?
ConfusingJazz
Member
EA is in a race that it doesn't know about.
I have called EA Tech Support, and I am trying to log into SimCity NAE2.
If I get into SimCity before Tech Support picks up, I am keeping it. If not, I am demanding a refund, this is ridiculous.
The cheetah speed "fix" is really what is driving my decision.
I have called EA Tech Support, and I am trying to log into SimCity NAE2.
If I get into SimCity before Tech Support picks up, I am keeping it. If not, I am demanding a refund, this is ridiculous.
The cheetah speed "fix" is really what is driving my decision.
:lol, nice
There's no way I'm even starting up the game again without Cheetah speed.
samus4ever
Banned
Its not a glitch. It just counts the time you spend in the launcher as playtime. I've maybe played an hour at most in game and it's said I've played for 6 hours.
fluffydelusions
Member
Forsaken82
Member
I only bring it up because the games been out for just over 2 days. I am curious if those 18 hours were spent staring at a screen or if the launcher was just left up while he slept or something...
I mean, aren't there better things to do than spending 18 out of 48 hours waiting to connect into a game (im assume at least 8 of those hours were spent sleeping??) I just want to know how these 18 hours were spent is all.
Ethical Hedonism
Banned
This. I've spent almost 18 hours between reinstalls, queues and launching the game and waiting for my city to load for like 2 hours to no avail.
Last night I went to sleep and left the game reinstalling.
Kinky John
Member
1 hour until tons of drunk Brits wearing piss-stained Union Flag boxer shorts start piling onto the servers looking for trouble.
Forsaken82
Member
man... you are patient... I can't even stay on hold for more than 30 minutes with a cable company. Thankfully ive been working crazy overtime this week that I haven't been able to experience these issues... Hopefully by the time I am able to play it, it will be like nothing was ever wrong!
ConfusingJazz
Member
If you can get on the servers to cause trouble, I would be amazed.
Ethical Hedonism
Banned
I do most of the times.
samus4ever
Banned
I'm doing the same now since the server crashed and caused the game to launch into a black screen. Diablo 3 launch seems like a dream compared to this.
RicardoNeftali
Member
Guy's I think he has a valid point. Also look at this sweet ride I invented I call it the "EA Experience".
Anyway if you just stopped complaining EA would totally have given refunds. For sure, 100% these things are related.
ConfusingJazz
Member
And the winner is: AT&T, because they dropped my call! The obvious winner that no one saw coming.
Maybe for you. The most I can do is get into a server and then attempt to load my city or create a new city after which I'm told they can't load the city/create the region. Been like that for the past two days with several dozen attempts ranging pretty much every hour of the day and night.
On a related note I just got back from Best Buy with my refund money from the purchase. Wonder how long from now (or even if) my account and or game data will disappear/be banned. Thankfully this is the first, and last, thing I've used Origin for.
EagleBurnn
Banned
I have over "20 hours" played. Most of that is sleeping while it downloaded and the launcher stayed up until I woke. I played around 3 hours max while the rest is listening to the launcher music. Lovin' it.
25 hours here. Probably 5 hours of that was actually in game on the launch night and a little the morning after. Haven't been able to get a map loaded since.
CitizenVectron
Member
Watch as EA will issue a press release saying "Our gamers have averaged over 20 hours of play each in the first 48 hours of release!"
